It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
SAMUEL SMILESIt is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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With will one can do anything.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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